Growth of residual renal tissue in response to loss of other renal tissue is termed as compensatory hypertrophy. The functional adaptation is characterized by an increase in GFR which began 2 weeks after unilateral nephrectomy due to growth of the remaining kidney. Although increases in total renal weight have been reported in 24 hours, the total increase of about 50% in mass following unilater...

Public attitude toward deceased donor organ recovery in Poland is quite positive, with only 15% opposing to donation of their own organs, yet actual donation rate is only 16/pmp. Moreover, donation rate varies greatly (from 5 to 28 pmp) in different regions of the country. To identify the barriers of organ donation, we surveyed 587 physicians involved in brain death diagnosis from regions with ...

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE the adequacy of blood depends on blood donation rates and numbers of blood donors. To prepare adequate blood supplies, it is essential to investigate the barriers and factors that stop individuals from donating. This study aimed to identify the causes of lapsed donation at our center. DESIGN AND SETTING cross-sectional study of volunteer blood donors in Shiraz, Iran. M...

For the majority of scholars concerned with the ethics of living organ donation, inflicting moderate harms on competent volunteers in order to save the lives or increase the life chances of others is held to be justifiable provided certain conditions are met. These conditions tend to include one, or more commonly, some combination of the following: (1) The living donor provides valid consent to...

BACKGROUND The demand for transplantable organ continues to exceed supply, particularly in minority patient populations. We explored the factors influencing organ donation attitude within the Arab American community. METHODS Secondary data analysis from a face-to-face survey administered in late 2003 to 1016 adults from a representative population-based sample on Greater Detroit Arab American...

a r t i c l e i n f o The present study examined the role of the big five personality dimensions and altruism in organ donation attitudes (ODA), intentions to register, and organ donor status using a sample of 336 college undergraduates. Participants completed questionnaires that assessed the big five personality dimensions, altruism, ODA, and non-donors completed a question that assessed their...

OBJECTIVE To test the efficacy of using hair stylists as lay health advisors to increase organ donation among African American clients. DESIGN This study was a randomized, controlled intervention trial where we randomized 52 salons (2,789 clients) to receive a 4 session, stylist-delivered health education program (comparison) or a four session brief motivational intervention that encouraged o...

BACKGROUND Due to the shortage of cadaveric organs, living kidney donation has begun to serve as the most crucial organ pool. Transplant centers have a legitimate interest in expanding the pool of donors. A psychosocial evaluation is established in transplantation centers to prevent donors from possible emotional harm in the aftermath of donation. We explored if the resilience questionnaire is ...

This paper explores the conceptualization of what we term “conspicuous donation behavior” and “non-conspicuous donation behavior” and provides initial insight into their relationships with involvement, self-monitoring, age and gender. The results indicate that involvement, age and gender have significant relationships with “conspicuous donation behavior”, whereas only involvement exhibits a sig...

Eclipse, an open source software project, acknowledges its donors by presenting donation badges in its issue tracking system Bugzilla. However, the rewarding effect of this strategy is currently unknown. We applied a framework of causal inference to investigate relative promptness of developer response to bug reports with donation badges compared with bug reports without the badges, and estimat...